Combination tool



Feb. 16, 1932. F J. ALDERSO-N ,0 3

COMBINATION TOOL Filed July 27, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 '1 T1 "H 15 5 lnl Uln- A .Jwmm Fir 17m. Jflwmsm.

Feb. 16, 1932. F. J. ALDERSON 1,845,038

COMBINATION TOOL Filed July 27, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Feb. 16, 1932 UNITED sraras FREDERICK JACKSON ALDERSON, OF KINGSTON, ONTARIO, CANADA comamarron 'roo'r.

Application filed July 27,1925, Serial No. 46,481, and in Canada July 23, 1925.

This invention relates to improvements in combination tools, and the objects of the invention are to provide a simply constructed, low-priced, durable, and efficient device of this character which can be manufactured and placed on the market in large quantities at a very low price and which will satisfactorily perform the various functions required of it.

Further objects are to provide a tool of this description comprising a plurality of co-acting tools orinstruments arranged in conveniently operative position.

Yet another object is to provide a combination tool made from a blank stamped from a single piece of suitable material, thus reduc ing the cost of production as much as possible.

A still further object is to provide a tool of this description in which the several parts are adapted to fold, and whereby the tool as a whole when not in use can be easily carried and in which the various elements are separately and conveniently operable.

Referring now to the drawings, in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure,

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of my improved combination tool,

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the under side of the tool,

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank stamped from a single piece of suitable material,

Fig. 4 is a section on line d4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a section on line 55 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 6 is a partial section on line 6-6 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 7 is an elevation of the hammer claw detached, and

Fig. 8 is an elevation of the hammer head detached.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, as illustrated in Fig. 3, 10 designates a blank stamped out from a single piece of suitable material, preferably steel, and formed at the end 11, with an opening 12 adapted to engage with the metal tops of bottles and the like. A projection 13 is also formed on the curved extremity of the end 11, this being designed as a screw-driver. A

projection 14 is formed on the side of the end 11 designed to engage with a hammer head 15 as shown in dotted lines and illustrated in Fig. 8, While on the opposite side is a projection 17 on the blankheadadapted to en gage with a hammer claw 18, as shown in dotted lines and illustrated in Fig. 7. Adjacent the blank head 11 the stem portion 19 is formed with extension 21 on the side having slot 22 therein and orifices 23. This extension is designed to be bent twice as indi cated by the dotted lines 21 and 25 toform, asillustrated .in Fig.1, a holder for a pair of emery wheels 26 rotatably mounted on pins 27which are adapted to engage the orifices 23, the whole being adapted to form a knife sharpener, the knife or other instrument to be sharpened being inserted therein through the slot 22. It will be understood that there maybe two such extensions 21, one 1 on each side, to support the sharpening wheels' 28 constitutes the body portion of the blank substantially rectangular in forma tion andformcd with an extension 29 at one end in spaced relationship to the stem 19. The a body portion 28'is designed to be twice bent or folded longitudinally onone side, as inclicated by dotted lines 31 and 32 inFig. 3; and on the other side, as indicated by dotted lines inFigJB, is designed to be bentat right angles, the whole to form a casing 33, as shown in Fig. 1, 2, and 4, designed to carry a weighing scale The end extension 29 is folded twice on itself as indicated by dotted lines 35 so that the orifices 36 and 37 therein register with one another to form a retaining lug 38 adapted to receive the scale retain.- ing screw 39. Projections or cut-outs 40 and 11 with orifices therein are stamped in the body portion to form, when the latter is folded as above described, the lug 42 designed to carry a pivotally mounted corkscrew 13. Cutouts 44 and 45 are also stamped in the body portion 2?v designed, when the body portion is folded as already described, to re of and a can piercer 49 formed on the curved extremity whereby, on the extension 47 being bent, as indicated by dotted lines 50, a can opener is provided, the sharpened projection 51 on the plate 46 forming the cutter for the opener. The lugs 44 and 45 are designed to form a guideway for the slidably operable plate 46 conforming in size to the folded body portion 28 and adapted to travel thereon between the lugs 44 and 45 as well as the recesses 52. This plate also forms a rule, as previously mentioned, and is provided with a plurality of orifices 53 adapted to engage wit-h a pin 54 formed in the body portion 28. This plate also carries the pointed and sharpened lug member 51 previously referred to. The detachable rule or slidably operable plate 46 is withdrawn and the end with the two sharp points or lugs 55 is placed against the door frame or sill with the lugs facing the woodwork. The door is then closed, the pressure forcing the sharp points of the lugs into the door frame or sill forming a wedge between the door and the frame or sill. The body of the tool is then replaced on the plate 46 until it engages with the stud or pin 54 through the orifices 53. This pin or stud 54 which engages with the orifices 53 in the plate 46 prevents removal of the plate to open the door. The lugs 51 being forced into the wood work prevent the tool from being forced forward when pressure from the door is brought against the hooked end of the casing on the tool body. To open the door the end of the plate 46 is disengaged from the pin or stud 54 and the body of the tool withdrawn. The door can then be opened by being pulled from one side or having pressure exerted on the opposite side.

56 indicates a coil spring, as disclosed in Fig. 5, which is wound or looped around the stem of the retaining screw 39, the other end of the coil spring being connected to the weighing scale.

From the foregoing it will be seen that, from the blank, as illustrated in Fig. 3, stamped from a single piece of material, I provide, by simply folding it as indicated by the dotted lines, aplurality of co-acting instruments conveniently arranged in practically operative positions and comprising a screw-driver, a hammer, a tack or nail extractor, a bottle opener, a knife sharpener, a corkscrew, a weighing scales, a can opener, a rule, and a door fastener or look.

In operating the tool as a can opener it is held horizontally to the can in the reverse position to that shown in Fig. 1. The sharp point 48 is then inserted in the center of the top of the can to be opened, the plate 46 being then operated according to the diameter of the top of the can to cause the cutting point 51 to register nearly with the outside rim of the can, pivoting the tool on the point 48 and permitting it to be used similarly to the ordinary type of this class of can opener to cut around the top of the can.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention, within the scope of the claim, constructed without departin from the spirit or scope thereof, it is inten ed that all matter contained in the accompanying specification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What I claim as my invention is:

A door securer of the character described, comprising a flat elongated body member having an offset abutment at one side and adjacent one end thereof, opposed inwardly directed lugs carried by said abutment and arranged in spaced parallel relation to the opposite side of the body member, a fixed projection extending centrally from the last mentioned side of said body member, an elongated plate slidably supported by said body member and guided through said lugs, said plate having a longitudinal series of spaced openings adapted to singly receive said projection, and adapted to be flexed to release the same from said projection, and a plurality of pointed projections carried by the plate adjacent one end thereof.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FREDERICK JACKSON ALDERSON. 

